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The Pope reconsiders Martin Luther « LiturgicalCredo.com’s Blog

Read the above article first before reading my comments below, PLEASE!

There was a the article above and then some comments below.  I had to reply with my thoughts and felt that this was the beginning of a good blog post. 

My view is that even though I go to a Methodist Church, I am first a believer in Jesus Christ, God The Father and the Holy Spirit.  I just happen to go to a Methodist Church and in that, I go there because Jesus is alive and well there.  The Holy Spirit is very Active and moving and working.  I believe in the Bible and it’s infallibility, not any man, for we all fall short of the Glory of God and all have sinned, period.  The fact that my church has a Traditional service and a Contemporary service(which I go to ) is evident that we have a good mix of people that worship differently and my church has recognized that and created the contemporary services.   Jesus never stated the need for a hundred different denominations, He just wanted people to have the faith of a mustard seed.  As Pastor Larry stated this past weekend in one of his talks on an Emmaus weekend, “the Devil just comes into the church and starts asking questions like, the bread really isn’t the REAL body of Christ is it?”  Thus begins the separation of believers into a sort of ‘faction’ group of people that allowed division to come in.  Anyway, my response below to the post and read the previous comments to mine as well if you can. 

The song we sang this past weekend that I’m sure is an old timey hymnal goes like this, “One Bread, One Body, One Lord of All, One cup of Blessing which we Bless, and we though many, throughout the earth, we are ONE body in this ONE LORD”

Luther was a Great man of God and saw the truth. Thank God for Luther and what he did. His 95th Thesis is spot on. Indulgences were heresy and so is the fact that the pope is ‘infallible’
Christ died for all and to all whom believe in Him are CHRISTians…period. There is no Catholic or Protestant Church…it’s One Church.
Read Ephesians 2:8, 9 & 4:4, 5
Where is the Church anyway? is it in the Vatican? Is is only your church with walls that you worship in on Sundays and maybe Wednesday’s? The Church, in my humble opinion, is the Body of Believers all over the world, not encompassed by walls, but by souls, anywhere and everywhere.
There is a need, I do believe, for different denominations across the world, that enable you to worship alike in a corporate environment, but to say that Catholics or Protestants is what Jesus intended…I’m not so sure. Man gets in the way, but God’s plans and will overcome ultimately.